noun
the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
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a politically organized body of people under a single government
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- the state has elected a new president
- African nations
- students who had come to the nation's capitol
- the country's largest manufacturer
- an industrialized land
noun
a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
noun
a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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